Standards Body service catalog

AboutAds.info is the consumer-facing site of the Digital Advertising Alliance, providing the YourAdChoices interest-based advertising opt-out tool and self-regulatory program disclosures.

ActivityPub is a W3C-recommended decentralized social networking protocol enabling federated servers like Mastodon to exchange posts, follows, and notifications.

Spain's independent data protection authority responsible for enforcing GDPR and the Spanish Organic Law on Data Protection (LOPDGDD). It processes complaints, conducts investigations, issues sanctions against data controllers, and publishes guidelines on privacy compliance for organizations operating in Spain.

The American Bar Association (ABA) is the largest voluntary national membership organization of lawyers and law students in the United States, providing legal education, accrediting law schools, setting professional conduct standards, and advocating for the rule of law.

The Chaos Computer Club is Europe's largest and most influential hacker association, based in Germany, promoting digital rights, privacy, security research, and open access to information, and hosting major events such as the Chaos Communication Congress.

CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) is the French independent administrative authority responsible for enforcing GDPR and French data privacy regulations, providing guidance to individuals and organizations on data protection, and investigating complaints about data misuse.

FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) is a non-governmental self-regulatory organization authorized by the US Congress to oversee broker-dealers operating in the United States. It registers and examines securities firms and brokers, enforces compliance with securities laws and FINRA rules, provides investor education and protection resources, and operates market surveillance and dispute resolution services.

The Free Software Foundation is a US non-profit that promotes user freedom in software, stewards the GNU project and GPL licenses, and runs advocacy campaigns and member services.

HTML5 is the fifth major version of the HyperText Markup Language standard, maintained by the W3C and WHATWG, introducing semantic elements, native video/audio support, canvas graphics, offline storage, and improved APIs for modern web application development.

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is an international professional society and scientific publisher dedicated to advancing physics through peer-reviewed journals, conferences, education initiatives, and policy engagement for the global physics community.

The IAEA is the United Nations-affiliated intergovernmental body promoting peaceful nuclear technology, safeguards inspection programs, and nuclear safety standards worldwide.

Autonomous intergovernmental organization providing energy data, policy analysis, and recommendations on global energy security, sustainability, and clean energy transitions.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) governs the global Olympic movement, organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, oversees athlete eligibility and doping regulations, and promotes Olympism through sports development programs worldwide.

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is the global authority on the status of the natural world, publishing the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, setting conservation standards, and convening governments, NGOs, and scientists to guide biodiversity protection efforts worldwide.

Markdown is a lightweight plain-text markup language and formatting syntax that converts simple text annotations into structured HTML, supporting headers, bold, italic, lists, links, code blocks, and blockquotes, widely adopted in documentation, blogging, and developer tools.

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is the largest trade association in the United States, representing over 1.5 million real estate professionals and providing member services, advocacy, education, market research, and ethical standards for the real estate industry.

Network Advertising Initiative is a US digital advertising trade association whose website hosts the consumer opt-out tool for interest-based advertising and self-regulatory compliance code for ad-tech members.

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a US nonprofit that develops and publishes fire, electrical, and life safety codes and standards including NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code), providing training, research, and public education resources.

Growing the impact of Open Source around the world The Open Source Initiative is the global nonprofit building the future powered by open collaboration, transparency and innovation. Supported by the...

Pantone is the global color authority, best known for the Pantone Matching System (PMS) used by designers, printers, manufacturers, and brands worldwide to ensure consistent and accurate color communication across industries.

PMI (Project Management Institute) is the world's largest professional organization for project management, offering globally recognized certifications including PMP and CAPM, publishing the PMBOK Guide, and providing training, communities, and research for project management practitioners.

PURL (Persistent Uniform Resource Locator) is a web redirection service providing stable, persistent URLs for digital resources that may move over time. Originally developed by OCLC in 1995, PURLs are widely used in library cataloging, semantic web namespaces (RDF/OWL ontologies), and academic publishing to maintain long-term dereferenceable identifiers for online documents and datasets.

The Real Academia Española (RAE) is Spain's official royal institution responsible for regulating and standardizing the Spanish language. Its online platform provides access to the authoritative Diccionario de la lengua española, the Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts, grammar references, and orthography guides, serving as the definitive resource for Spanish language usage across the world.

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